it seems like this is the legal equaivent of smoking dope behind the McDonald's ..basically no one cares that much. The govt. could prosecute or make an example.,but whatevah. It's implicitly understood nvdia is a huge success and central to the US tech boom.

You may have been smoking too much.

We were already into personal liability for board members territory (and possibly GC) BEFORE the latest allegations.

Mhh no.

LLMs are seen by politicians as a national security issue.

Better models = better cyber offense/defense, etc.

Was it really no one else’s job to make sure export controls were adhered to?

the CEO is ultimately responsible and accountable

Presumably those people report to the CEO.

I think /u/jazzyjackson was referring to the US Government, who, there are grounds for thinking, did know something about all of this and immediately swung into action .... or not, as the case may be.

Really I figured nvidia has a legal team that evaluates how exposed they are to risk of running afoul of the US government. I ask because, ok the CEO was complicit, but should the company wash their hands of it and pretend they had no way of knowing? That it was only the CEO that was responsible?

But I ask out of ignorance, I’ve never been inside a Big Corp.

Illicit flow of Nvidia chips to China was public knowledge over a year ago.

yes, but were people suspecting the business of being implicit in that smuggling?

yes, they were. gamersnexus made an hourslong video about this.